Rate increase request

[andrew12]

Hi,

My partner works as a medical locum through an agency. Lets call them Agency1. she has finished a 3 month contract and offered another 3. Current rate is £40 an hour and agency has a £10 an hour markup.

Another agency (lets call them agency2) whom she has used before have offered to pay her an extra £5 an hour and take a slightly reduced rate to ensure the end client (NHS) saves a bit of money. Therefore my partner gets £45 an hour and the agency I believe are taking £3 an hour.

There was nothing in her original contract with agency1 that states she has to renew with the original agency. I don't know if there is a clause in the contract between the agency1 and the NHS saying my partner has to continue working through.

Q As she is out of contract is she entitled to go through agency2?

Thanks
Jbt

I agree with scooterscot. You should go through the details of the contract properly, I am sure, they must have specified the expiry date of the contract. We can work with multiple locums agencies to get work.

[Mich the Tester]

Ooh, a suity sockie competition! Everyone registers a sockie and does a suity post. Prize to whoever guesses the real suity! Sounds like a job for a Friday.

It would never work; most of the sockies would call in sick before the competition starts.

[mudskipper]

Suity, I tried hard to act like your sockie; I even started writing a sob story about my leg hurting and my sinusses getting blocked and stubbing my toe on the bathroom door after I ate some lightly spiced chicken stew, but I just couldn't do it; my story was so filled with self contradictions that I gave up. I just can't do 'big girls blouse' as well as you. Ask MF; he can help.

Ooh, a suity sockie competition! Everyone registers a sockie and does a suity post. Prize to whoever guesses the real suity! Sounds like a job for a Friday.

[Mich the Tester]

Oops wrong login. Mods please ban the MTT sockie.

Suity, I tried hard to act like your sockie; I even started writing a sob story about my leg hurting and my sinusses getting blocked and stubbing my toe on the bathroom door after I ate some lightly spiced chicken stew, but I just couldn't do it; my story was so filled with self contradictions that I gave up. I just can't do 'big girls blouse' as well as you. Ask MF; he can help.

[kevpuk]

Try and get a contract with breast implanting, it is far more lucrative.

Happy to go on the Approved Substitute list on this one

[Paddy]

Hi,

My partner works as a medical locum through an agency. Lets call them Agency1. she has finished a 3 month contract and offered another 3. Current rate is £40 an hour and agency has a £10 an hour markup.

Another agency (lets call them agency2) whom she has used before have offered to pay her an extra £5 an hour and take a slightly reduced rate to ensure the end client (NHS) saves a bit of money. Therefore my partner gets £45 an hour and the agency I believe are taking £3 an hour.

There was nothing in her original contract with agency1 that states she has to renew with the original agency. I don't know if there is a clause in the contract between the agency1 and the NHS saying my partner has to continue working through.

Q As she is out of contract is she entitled to go through agency2?

Thanks
Jbt

Try and get a contract with breast implanting, it is far more lucrative.

[suityou01]

You mean it's one of your sockies?

Oops wrong login. Mods please ban the MTT sockie.

[Mich the Tester]

Oops, wrong forum. Mods, quickly please!

You mean it's one of your sockies?

[scooterscot]

Contracts sometime specify a period of time that must expire before you can work with that client again, unless through themselves. Have a look. If it's absent there's nothing to stop you going through agency B.

[suityou01]

Oops, wrong forum. Mods, quickly please!

[jbt]

Hi,

My partner works as a medical locum through an agency. Lets call them Agency1. she has finished a 3 month contract and offered another 3. Current rate is £40 an hour and agency has a £10 an hour markup.

Another agency (lets call them agency2) whom she has used before have offered to pay her an extra £5 an hour and take a slightly reduced rate to ensure the end client (NHS) saves a bit of money. Therefore my partner gets £45 an hour and the agency I believe are taking £3 an hour.

There was nothing in her original contract with agency1 that states she has to renew with the original agency. I don't know if there is a clause in the contract between the agency1 and the NHS saying my partner has to continue working through.

Q As she is out of contract is she entitled to go through agency2?

Thanks
Jbt